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2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 5 - (501 - 551) ADVERSE POSSESSION
541 - Adverse possession, how affected by relation of tenants in common.


NY Real Prop Actions L § 541 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  541.  Adverse  possession,  how  affected by relation of tenants in
  common. Where the  relation  of  tenants  in  common  has  existed,  the
  occupancy  of one tenant, personally or by his servant or by his tenant,
  is deemed to have been the possession of the other, notwithstanding that
  the tenant so occupying the premises has acquired another title  or  has
  claimed to hold adversely to the other. But this presumption shall cease
  after  the  expiration of ten years of continuous exclusive occupancy by
  such tenant,  personally  or  by  his  servant  or  by  his  tenant,  or
  immediately upon an ouster by one tenant of the other and such occupying
  tenant may then commence to hold adversely to his cotenant.

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